I was reading the new NRA mag I got in the mail and in the technical dept someone had asked about Billy the kid being left handed and how he is really right handed and the ferrotype photo is mirrored which by itself is fascinating and being the ONLY picture of him in existence just adds to the legend.

This is the amazing part “quoted from Wikipedia”
“ The ferrotype sold at auction on June 25, 2011, in a three-day Western show. It was purchased for 2.3 million dollars, some six times the estimate. It was the most expensive piece ever sold at Brian Lebel's Annual Old West Show & Auction,[117] and the 6th most expensive photograph ever sold.”

The old west has always been a fascination of many but 2.3 million dollars makes you wonder if/when it sold again what will it be sold for and to whom?

April 29th, 2012, 04:14 PM

gunthorp

Interesting.

I wish there was only one picture of me out there.

April 29th, 2012, 04:51 PM

WHEC724

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Originally Posted by gunthorp

Interesting.

I wish there was only one picture of me out there.

LOL. I'm glad my 'stupid phase' was of the polaroid 'pre-internet' era. Can you imagine what Billy's facebook page would have looked like? :blink:

April 29th, 2012, 06:41 PM

mkh

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Originally Posted by gunthorp

Interesting.

I wish there was only one picture of me out there.

So, where are all those pictures? In Post Offices?

April 29th, 2012, 10:32 PM

msgt/ret

If it does like some very rare coins I have seen auctioned each subsequent sale will bring a higher price.

April 29th, 2012, 10:34 PM

xXxplosive

I believe purchased by William Koch..................

April 29th, 2012, 11:26 PM

Mattmann

Hahahahaha .........
William

April 30th, 2012, 12:34 AM

Eagleks

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Originally Posted by xXxplosive

I believe purchased by William Koch..................

Yep.

And Billy the Kid was "right" handed, that's been known for a long time, and the misprinting of the picture.

Did find a bit of "history" that several people are now reviewing related to Billy the Kid. It had been 'rumored' that Alex McSween's wife (Susan McSween) knew Evans, before all of this occurred and was close to him. Jessie Evans... worked for Murphy / Dolan , is the one who shot Tunstall, who also shot McSween in the shoot out at his house with Billy the Kid, and was their general "hit man" for the Murphy / Dolan faction (which was really Dolan as Murphy was sick and dying during the Lincoln County war) . IF she was on the Tunstall side, and her husband had been working for Tunstall, did her relationship (if there ever was one) ..... how Jessie Evans knew where Tunstall would be that day, have "inside" information, etc. that they seemed to have .... and no one knew how they knew it.

I saw a picture that someone had of Jessie Evans, and I thought the "woman " in it looked familiar and did some research. The people who had the picture, only knew the man was "Jessie Evans",. . .... the woman standing very close to him in the picture, looks "exactly" like pictures of Susan McSween when she was a bit younger. Exactly like her. Others (more credible historians of that area, era, people, etc) have now also reviewed it, etc. and came to the same conclusions. No woman took a picture with a man, unless they were extremely close , brother / sister, etc.

So ..... it does tie Susan McSween and Jessie Evans... and having a "close" relationship before she met Alex McSween, married him, and then moved to New Mexico with him. Was she even inadvertently giving info to Jessie Evans ? It appears to support the theories, or at least suggest there was much more there than people realized. Susan McSween lived in Kansas (where I am) , and is where she met Alex McSween when he was here related to some work he was doing.

April 30th, 2012, 01:55 AM

chiefjason

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Originally Posted by WHEC724

Can you imagine what Billy's facebook page would have looked like? :blink:

Billy the kid- BRB, headed over to Maxwell's. Got a surprise for him.

Sheriff Pat Garret likes this.

Sheriff Pat Garret- I love surprises.

Billy the Kid- WTH Sheriff, get off my page. Where you at these days?

April 30th, 2012, 11:39 AM

Spade115

that would be intresting. :D lol

I told my girlfriend the day i die she's to be logging into my facebook and adding

I had heard about the left-handed myth, apparently generated from the mirror image of that photo. The "experts" say he was surely right-handed but the photo is a bit tricky. The mirror image problems begins to reveal itself when they noticed his buttons and belt buckle were in the wrong position/direction, plus the loading gate on the rifle (Win. 1873) is on the wrong side of the receiver in the photo.

I'm certainly not the expert, just passing along what I remember reading. To me the loading gate is the clincher.